7/7/2023 0 Comments Book the caine mutinyFor example, one area of both book and film which receives the most criticism is the romantic subplot between Willie Keith and May Wynn-some complain that it’s boring, annoying, unnecessary. On the most basic level, there is simply much more complexity in the novel than could be brought out in a two-hour screenplay. But here’s the thing: if you asked somebody to give you a brief synopsis of The Caine Mutiny, the answer would probably be something like this: “It’s a WWII drama where the ship’s captain is crazy.” But when you read the novel, you find that is not the whole story or even the true story. It is a good movie, with an interesting script, fine performances, and just a couple of howling flaws. I suppose it’s logical to begin with the movie-where most people’s acquaintance with the story lies where my acquaintance with it began. I started reading it in November, finally finished it in early January, and needed a few weeks to chew over and sort out the thoughts I wanted to get into my review. But apparently you don’t dive into a 560-page, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and come out with nothing more than a little local color-not if the novel is halfway worth its salt, anyway. My original reason for picking up this novel was to glean a little local color about shipboard life during WWII.
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After the end of those original schools, water became scarce. The Indigenous Anishnaabe people were proud and valiant warriors, but newcomers opened residential schools to subjugate them and deprive them of their language. One night, Miig explains that dreams live in their bone marrow and then tells the teens Story, the narrative of how the world got to where it is now. Frenchie's family consists of the teens Chi-Boy, Wab, and the twins Tree and Zheegwon the kids RiRi and Slopper Miig, and the Elder Minerva. Miig finds Frenchie, asleep and ready to die.įrenchie is now sixteen, and he's been on the run with Miig for the last five years. It's cold, he's sick, and the little food he has is spoiled. When the coast is clear, Frenchie starts running north. Mitch makes Frenchie hide in a tree and sacrifices himself. Frenchie and his older brother, Mitch, find a bag of Doritos, but the sound attracts Recruiters. His mom became depressed, and Recruiters got her. Not long ago, Frenchie’s dad left with the Council to try to convince the Governors to stop the atrocities happening at the residential schools. The story delves into how he found Miig, the middle-aged Anishnaabe man who becomes Frenchie’s surrogate father figure. The novel begins with the “coming-to story” of Frenchie, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in the Métis Indigenous community in Canada. 7/7/2023 0 Comments Dominion by Julie Hallthe destruction of Audrey's happily ever after.Īs Satan schemes for dominion over all the realms, Audrey learns that some acts may be beyond redemption.įans of The Mortal Instruments, Buffy, and Supernatural won't want to miss out on all the twists and turns in the conclusion of this YA Fantasy journey. Savage demons, desiccated corpses, life sucking zombie trees, and a land of death and rot await Audrey and her friends as they battle through the fiery realm.īut Logan's freedom comes with a price. But her quest for a perfect existence shatters the moment Logan is kidnapped in an attempt to bend her to Satan's will.Īudrey must now travel to the one place no hunter has ever ventured to save the man she loves. After defeating the red dragon's legion of bloodthirsty demons, Audrey can finally settle into the afterlife with the knowledge her family is safe. He and his team are exiled to Terminus, a small planet on the periphery of the galaxy, to work on the encyclopedia. The commission is satisfied that Seldon's project is not a threat to the Empire but wants to quiet him. This will be done, he says, by the production and dissemination by his team of an Encyclopedia Galactica which will contain all human knowledge. The purpose of his project is to influence events so that the interregnum period will be only 1,000 years and not 30,000. Seldon predicts that Trantor will be destroyed within 300 years as the climax to the fall of the Galactic Empire, leading to a 30,000 year period of anarchy before a Second Empire is established. They finally arrest Seldon and Gaal Dornick, a young mathematician who has just arrived to join the project.Īt Seldon's trial more details come out. He has set up a project which is increasingly harassed by Imperial officials from the Commission of Public Safety, the actual rulers of the Empire. The only one who realizes this is Hari Seldon, a mathematician who has created the science of Psychohistory by which it is possible to predict future events by extrapolating from historic trends. Though it has endured for so long and appears outwardly to be strong and stable, the empire has been imperceptibly declining for centuries. Gaal always had wanted to go to Trantor, the capital planet of the 12,000 year old Galactic Empire. The story begins on Synnax, with Gaal Dornick. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Prodigal summer a novelEveryone except Lusa knows that bugs are for squashing, so Lusa’s interests don’t seem to work well with farming. Lusa arrives in this world of long-established families and rigid traditions as the new wife of a young farmer, with her foreign Polish-Jewish-Palestinian background and her fancy scientific knowledge about bugs. Everything else in modern farming is a gamble, and farming is a hand to mouth business. We’ll start with Lusa: she lives on a farm where tobacco is the only crop that will grow reliably and store without rotting while waiting for the market’s best prices. It’s about the lives of four people living all quite near each other, in a small Virginia mountain valley and on the mountain itself. On a more recent rereading, I couldn’t even stop to make lunch until I reached the end. This novel is so intensely involving that, the first time I read it, I was up until 3am, sitting in the courtyard of a Spanish holiday cottage, desperately trying to finish the novel before I got eaten alive by night insects. This time on the Really Like This Book’s podcast scripts catch-up, I’m in very rural modern America, enjoying Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summer, where women are coyotes caring for their young, and a widowed scientist finds a new way to keep the family farm running. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Stars above meyer“Glitches” (previously published): “Glitches” follows “The Keeper” chronologically, as we see Cinder’s arrival in New Beijing and her introduction to the family of Linh Garan, her protector and adoptive father. It’s a sweet story, and gives us a glimpse of events that we’ve heard reference to, but which we’d never learned many details about. In “The Keeper”, we see how Cinder was first entrusted to Michelle’s care and how she kept Cinder hidden and safe, all the while trying to provide a loving, secure home for her niece Scarlet. As readers of the series know, Cinder was rescued from an almost successful murder attempt by her aunt Levana and hidden on Earth for years, while all of Luna believed her dead. “The Keeper” (new): Ah, some backstory! “The Keeper” focuses on Michelle Benoit and her role in Cinder’s early years. The collection includes four previously published stories and five that are brand new. Stars Above is a collection of stories that tie in and around the main characters and events of the novels, with most taking place in the years prior to the start of the series. But wait! It’s not quite as finished as it seemed… because here we are in 2016 and we have a final FINAL volume in our hands. The fantastic Lunar Chronicles series came to a close in 2015 with the publication of the final novel in the series, Winter. Without fail, Busani-Dube’s books come directly from the experience of being a black woman in South Africa – they are stories that properly reflect their readers.īusani-Dube is a journalist by trade. Her characters are realistic and damaged, they come with baggage and they come with imperfection and insecurity – just like the rest of us. She describes her books as being about “broken men and the women who try to fix them”, and when asked what inspires here books, she has said: “People, just people and their realities.” Both of which, you’ll no doubt agree, are refreshingly pithy responses.īy and large, her books are positioned somewhat in defiance of the white-washed, absurdly photogenic and straightforward romance novel. Best known for her Hlomu series – and for writing the novelisation of the 2018 film Zulu Wedding – Busani-Dube is a self-published novelist based in Johannesburg. 7/6/2023 0 Comments I was born for this osemanShe graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English literature from Durham University in 2016. Her novels focus on contemporary teenage life in the UK and have received the Inky Awards.Īlice Oseman was born to Jewish parents in Chatham, Kent and grew up in a village near Rochester, Kent with her younger brother, William, and attended Rochester Grammar School. She wrote and illustrated the webcomic Heartstopper, which has been published as multiple graphic novels and which she adapted into a TV series, earning her a BAFTA TV Award nomination and two Children's and Family Emmy Awards as both a writer and producer. Her novels include Radio Silence, I Was Born for This, and Loveless. She secured her first publishing deal at 17, and had her first novel Solitaire published in 2014. Alice May Oseman (born 16 October 1994) is an English author of young adult fiction. The aliens, it turns out, speak many different languages, but have settled on Esperanto to communicate amongst themselves and Jim of course knows Esperanto. There are LOTS of bad jokes, like aliens named Sess-pul. James Bolivar DiGriz (Slippery Jim, the Stainless Steel Rat) is called upon by the Special Corps once again to save the universe! First he has to break his sons out of jail, rescue his wife from the taxman and build himself his own slimy disguise to become "Sleepery Jeem." Just like in War of the Worlds, Earth is being menaced by cephalopods of all shapes, sizes and degrees of sliminess. There was more than enough silliness in this book to achieve my aim. I started this book this week because I had the post-Xmas-vacation blues really badly and needed something to make me smile. … Each solution is presented in a very logical, interesting, thorough manner with accompanying explanations and notes that the intelligent layperson can understand. "Amidst the plethora of books that treat the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence, this one by Webb … is outstanding. In this second, significantly revised and expanded edition of his widely popular book, Webb discusses in detail the (for now!) 75 most cogent and intriguing solutions to Fermi's famous paradox: If the numbers strongly point to the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations, why have we found no evidence of them? Why, then, have we encountered no evidence, no messages, no artifacts of these extraterrestrials? The sheer enormity of the numbers almost demands that we accept the truth of this hypothesis. Given the fact that there are perhaps 400 billion stars in our Galaxy alone, and perhaps 400 billion galaxies in the Universe, it stands to reason that somewhere out there, in the 14-billion-year-old cosmos, there is or once was a civilization at least as advanced as our own. |